Car replacer



W. A. RIDDELL.

CAR REPLACER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. Z1921. 1,409,970. Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

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Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

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UNITED STATES WILLIS A. RIDDELIJ, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

CAR BEPI'ACER.

Specification of Letters Patent Patented M31", 21 1922.

Application filed March 2, 1921. Serial No. 449,005

To all to 7mm it may concern Be it known that l, l/VILLIS A. RIDDELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of lndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Replacers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved car replacer and has as its principal object to provide a device of this character wherein a derailed car may be quickly directed back onto the track and wherein slipping of the car wheels from engagement with the replacer frogs employed will be effectually prevented.

The invention has as a further object to provide a replacer wherein the frogs will be firmly held against longitudinal movement and will also be held against side movement.

And the invention has as a still further object to provide a replacer having means for accommodating the frogs to different sized rails and wherein said means will serve to lock the frogs at their forward ends upon the rails.

Other and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a top plan view showing the frogs of my improved replacer in position upon a pair of track rails of conventional design, several cross ties being also illustrated,

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view of one of the replacer frogs,

Figure 3 is a perspective view showing one of the frogs in detail.

' Figure 4 is a detail perspective view showing one of the locking wedges employed.

Figure 5 is a transverse section on the line 55 of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows, and V Figure 6 is a transverse section on the line 66 of Figure 1, looking in the direction of the arrows.

In carrying the invention into effect, I employ a pair of companion frogs. Each of these frogs is formed with a body wall 10 sloping upwardly from one end of the frog to the other and dependin from the body wall are side walls 11. At its forward end the frog is thickened to form a head 12 from which extend lateral flanges 13 and formed on the side walls as well'as upon the lower side of said head are teeth 14. Depending from the body wall medially thereof are spaced flanges 15 which extend rearobserved upon reference to Figure 2 of the drawings, spaced pairs of alined bracing webs 17 are arranged to'extend between said flanges and the side wallsll. Overlying the rear end portion of the channel 16'to upstand from the body wall 10 of the frog is a substantially V-shaped guide rib 18 having beveled side walls and the forward pointed end of which merges into the body wall at a point spaced substantially midway between the ends of the frog. The frog is further provided at its upper side with upstanding stop flanges 19 which, in effect, form continuations of the side walls 11 and extend from end to end of the frog. These flanges gradually converge to a point near the forward end of the frog when said flanges extend in parallel relation across the head 12. As will be noted the guiderib 18 :in conjunction with said flanges defines spaced guide channels 20 and 21 at the rear end portion of the frog, these guide channels merging at the forward pointed end of said rib, and. formed in the body wall of the frog near its forward end is a flange receiving groove 22 lying adjacent the innermost of said guide flanges. At the rear end of the frog,the side walls 11 as well as the guide flanges 19, are extended to provide hooks 23. At the forward end portion ofthe channel 16, said channel is enlarged while the head 12 is undercut at the inner side of the channel to provide a flange 24, and formed to removably fit within the channel at. its forward end to coact with said flange is a wedge 25. As particularly shown in Figure 8, the wedge is formed at its inner side with a depending flange 26 adapted to engage over a track rail and connecting the wedge with the frog is a short length of chain 27. As will be observed, the. wedge is tapered in height from its outer end toward its inner end and is also tapered in width from its outer end towardits inner end, the wedge being highest and widest at its'outer end. Further, the top wall of the T Figure 1, one of the frogs being arranged upon each rail. The rails are, of course,

loosely received within the channels 16 of the frogs and the hooks 23 of the frogs are engaged behind an adjacent track tie while the flanges 13 are arranged to overlie another tie. Spikes are then preferably arrangedto extend through these flanges and engaged with the latter tie for securing the frogs stationary. a In this connection, it will be observed that the teeth 14 at the lower sides of the frogs will coact with the track ties for holding the frogs against side move ment. The wedges 25 are then engaged over the track rails and driven into the forward end portions of the channels 16. As the wedges are advanced, the top walls of the wedges will bind between the rail treads and the top walls of saidchannels for lifting the forward end portions of the frogs against the action of the spikes engaged through the flanges 13, the forward end portions of the frogs being raised until the flanges 22L are lifted to bind beneath the top walls of the wedges. At the same time the wedges will coact between the rails and frogs forshifting the forward end portions of the frogs laterally to coact with therails until the wedgesbind between the rails and the heads of the frogs. This construction provides an arrangement whereby the frogs may be secured upon rails of different sizes and, as will be perceived, by forcibly driving the wedges 25 into the forward end portions of the rail channels of the frogs, the frogs may be firmly locked against movement relative to the rails. The frogs being in place, the channels 20 thereof will be disposed to receive the wheels of rolling stock derailed at one side of the track while the channels 21 will be disposed to receive the wheels of rolling stock derailed at the other side of the track. The guide ribs 18 will, of course, coact with the wheel flanges to prevent undue side movement of the wheels while the guide flanges 19 will serve to aline the wheels with the track rails. As the wheels pass over the 7 heads of the frogs, the wheel flanges will be appreciated, the wedges will, in addition to their other functions, serve to interrupt the drop of the wheels onto the rails so that no injury to the rolling stock may result. Each of the frogs is equipped with a pair of handles 28 and formed in the inner side walls of the frogs respectively is a pair of openings 29 whereby the frogs may be hung upon a locomotive tender tank.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A car replacer including a frog adapted to fit over a railway rail and provided with an inclined body wall, and means overlying the rail at the forward end of the frog for wedging the frog in engagement with the rail.

2. A car replacer including a frog having an inclined body wall and provided at its lower side with a rail receiving channel, and means to overlie the rail at the forward end of the frog engaged in said channel for binding the frog upon the rail.

3. A car replacer including a frog having an inclined body wall and. provided at its lower side with a rail receiving channel, and a wedge engageable in said channel to coact between the frog and rail for binding the frog upon the rail.

4. A car replacer including a frog provided at one end with a headand havingan vided at one end witha head and having an inclined body wall, the frog being formed at its lower side with a channel for receiving a rail, a flange projecting from the head within the channel, and a wedge engageable in said channel to coact with the flange for binding the frog upon the rail.

6. A car replacer including a frogadapted to fit over a railway rail, and means overlying the rail at the forward end ofthe frog for wedging the frog upwardly and laterally coacting with the rail.

7. A car replacer including a frog provided at its lower side with a channel for receiving a rail, and a wedge; engaged in said channel to coact between the frog and rail for wedging the frog upwardly and laterally coacting with the rail.

8. A car replacer including a frog provided at its lower side with a channel for receiving a rail, and a wedge engaged in said channel overlying the rail at the forward end of the frog providing a ledgebek tween the frog and theball of the rail.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

wILiLis A. RIDDELL. a 

